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No. 383,656. Patented May 29, 1888.

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T.. REMUSV APPARATUS FOR APPLYING STRIPS T0 BOXES. No. 383,656.PatentedMay 29, 1888.

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NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THEODOR REMUS, OF DRESDEN, SAXONY, GERMANY, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TOJEAN SOHERBEL, OF PLACE.

APPARATUS FOR APPLYING STRIPS TO BOXES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 383,656, dated May 29,1888.

Application filed May 20, 1887. Serial No. 233,829. (No model.) Patentedin Germany April 14, 1887, No. 41,307; in Belgium May 3, 182:7, No.77,295; in France May 3, 1887, No.183,306, and in England May 3. 1887,No. 6,505.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THEODOR REMUs, a subject of the Emperor of Russia,residing at the city of Dresden, in the Kingdom of Saxony, Empire ofGermany, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatusfor Applying Strips to Boxes, (for which I have obtained Letters PatentN o. 7 7,295, dated May 3, 1887, in Belgium; No. 183,306, dated May 3,1887, in France; No. 6,505, dated May 3, 1887, in England, and No.41,307, dated April 14, 1887, in Germany,) of which the following is aspecification.

The object of my invention is to provide a new and improved machine forpasting strips of paper or other material on and over the edges ofsheets of pasteboard used for making boxes, and also to paste strips ofpaper on said pasteboard sheet or blank along the lines on which saidsheet or blank is to be bent to form the box.

The invention consists in the combination, with a table or support, ofpresser rollers mounted to revolve in avertical plane, and rollersrevolving in a horizontal plane, and serving to apply a strip of paperor other material on the edges of a cardboard sheet.

The invention also consists in the construction and combination ofparts, as will be fully described and set forth hereinafter, and thenpointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1' is a front elevation of myimproved machine for pasting paper or other strips on sheets or blanksfor making pasteboard boxes. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same, thereels being omitted. Fig. 3 is a crosssectional view on the line x m,Fig. 1. Figs. 4 and 4 are detail cross-sectional views of a sheet uponwhich a strip has been pasted at the crease for forming a corner. Fig. 5is an enlarged horizontal sectional view of the pressing-roller used forpressing the strip hollow along the center. Fig. 6 is a plan view of asheet upon which the strips have been pasted along the edges and alongthe creases.

Similar letters of reference indicate corre sponding parts.

The feed-roller w is journaled horizontally along the front edge of thetable A, upon which the sheets can be placed. On a rail, B, above theroller 20 a series of holders, 0, are held verti- 1 ends of said holdersthe pressing-rollers a are mounted, and at each side of each roller a adisk, 9, is mounted loosely upon the shaft of the roller (1, and saiddisks are pressed against the sides of the roller by springs d,surrounding the shaft of the roller and interposed between washers atthe sides of the disks and the inner sides of the shanks of the forkedends of the holders. The apertures in the centers of the disk 6 are muchgreater than the diameter of the shaft, so that said disks can assumepositions eecentrically to the shaft and roller a. On the upper end ofeach roller-holder O a reel or pulley, c, is mounted, from which a stripof paper or other material passes to the corre sponding presser-roller,a, and between the corresponding disks, e, said strip 1) also pass ingover the edge of a roller, 9, which is moist ened or provided with gumor paste, so that the strip is made adhesive before being pressed uponthe sheet. Adjacentto the holdersO the adjustable holders D are held onthe rail B, and on said holders D the presserrollers b are journaled. Onthe table A the horizontal slides i are mounted to slide laterally, andare provided with suitable clamping devices, i, for locking them inplace, and with inclined guide-rails i on their inner ends. On saidslides are mounted the horizontal or almost horizontalcircumferentiallygrooved presserrollers h, the moistening or gummingrollers Z, and the reels or pulleys k. The edges of the slides i alsoserve as guides for the pasteboard sheet.

In case the pasteboard is rather thick and is provided with grooves orcreases at the points at which it is to bend, the strip, W, pasted onwould be torn, and for this reason the strip must be pasted on as shownin Figs. 4 and 4 -that is, in such a manner as to form a hollow ridge,W. When the sheet is bent at right angles, those parts of the strip thatare not pasted on rest firmly against the outer sides of the pasteboard.

In case the strips must be pasted on in such a manner as to form thehollow ridge, I provide the pressure-roller a with a circumferentialgroove and mount a comparatively sharpedged roller,"m, adjacent to thegrooved roller a, the edge ofsaid roller m pressing the strip of paperor other material into the circumferential groove of the presser-rollera.

The operation is as follows: The sheet of pasteboard is placed upon thetable A and moved in the direction of the arrow x,theslides or guidesz'being so adjusted that the side edges of thesheet pass alongthe edges ofsaidguides. The circuml'erentially-grooved prcsser-rollers h press aguinmcd or moistened strip, V, of paper against the edges of the sheet,and said strip is then pressed firmly upon the top and bottom of thepasteboard sheet by the action of the presser-rollers b. If at the sametime strips are to be pasted upon the surface of the sheet, the holdersC are adjusted according to the desired positions of said strips, thestrips being pasted on throughouttheirentire width or only along theedges, as in Figs. 4 and 4,

It is evident that the strips secured in one operation all run in thesame direction, and the strips running in the opposite direction must befastened by a second like operation.

The disks 6 serve as guides for the strip pressed down by the rollers a,and thus said disks must be mounted to yield.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent-- 1. In a machine for pasting on strips, thecombination, with a frame, of horizontal circumferentially-groovedrollers and presserrollers for pressing the strips upon the surface ofthe'sheet, substantially as shown and described.

2. The combination, with a table, of laterally-adjustable slides on thesame, circumferentially-grooved rollers mounted horizontally on theslides, and pressure-rollers mounted to revolve in-planes at rightangles to that of the slides, substantially as shown and described.

3. The combination, with a table, of the roller w, the verticalpresser-rollers a and b b, and the horizontal rollers 11, substantiallyas shown and described.

4. The combination, with the table A and the roller 10, of thecircumferentially-grooved presser-rollers a and the rollers m,substantiallyas shown and described.

5. The combination, with the table A and the roller w, of the rollers aa, the disks 6 e, washers resting against the sides of said disks, thesprings d d,-the presser-rollers b b, and the rollers h h, substantiallyas shown and described.

In testimony whereof I have sigued'my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing. witnesses.

THEODOR REMUS.

Witnesses: H PAUL DRUCKMULLER', EMIL DOMSOH.

